Pieno dei Miracoli

This has been a week pieno dei miracoli! The greatest is our new investigator, I. Her mother's a new convert of a few months from Bari and she's spent her summer bouncing back from Bari to Rimini, which is how we met her. A few weeks ago she gave us the number of her daughter, I. 

As soon as we called her she was excited to hear from us and set up an appointment. She's managing a hotel for the summer, so she's crazy busy, but if we go in the mornings, there are fewer distractions. We taught her the Restoration last Sunday, and it was the most amazing lesson of my mission. She got it. She really got it. She was explaining the apostasy back to us and really understood the significance of the first vision. She told us that she's been praying to know the right church, and by the end of the lesson the Spirit was so strong she had goosebumps.

Yesterday we had a scambio with our wonderful sisters from Ravenna! I love them. They're in our same district, so we get to see them alot. It was neat to go to Ravenna for a day and serve there. It's strange doing scambi sometimes, because I see myself a few transfers ago when the situation was swapped. It's crazy how much you learn and grow so quickly. 

Last Thursday we had a scambio planned with Bologna, but when we got to the train station that morning, there was a problem with one of the stations on the way to Bologna and all the trains we delayed for forever. We tried sticking around for a while, and even hopped on a train only to have it cancelled. We were able to help out an American family who were trying to get to Rome to catch a flight home. In the end we had to cancell our scambio. We had just gotten home for lunch  when a new convert called us. She's been working in a hotel all summer and so is unable to meet with us. They have insanely crazy hours here. But she finally had a day off and was in Rimini! So we were able to finally go and see her, after several months of trying. If we had taken a train to Bologna, we wouldn't have been able to do that. Nothing happens per caso. This is the Lord's work, and His hand is in it. We are so blessed to be a part of it

Here's a photo with my companion, Sorella Clawson that we took last week at San Marino!

I thought you might want to see my lovely helmet. Here's a picture from scambio the other week. :)